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How can I view my video card's temperature via SSH?

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Mar 15, 20262431 views
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I've finally managed to set up my two ATI Radeon 6950 video cards in my machine, but the cards can get quite hot. Based on the arrangement of my apartment, I want to be able to SSH into the machine an execute a command to find out the temperature. What I have tried so far is this... However, when I…

Error Output

export DISPLAY=:0.0
sudo aticonfig --adapter=0 --od-gettemperature

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lm-sensors will display the temp for most new radeons, if using the open source drivers. If the closed drivers need to access X before getting information, try exporting DISPLAY after changing to root and copying the .Xauthority file from the user's…

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